Barrow, Lancashire.—At 4.17 on the morning of the 14th of May, 1954, the Walney Island coastguard rang up to say that the Morecambe Bay light- vessel had asked for the life-boat as a member of her crew was seriously ill.

At 5.15 the life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched, with a doctor on board.

She made for the lightvessel in a moderate sea, with a moderate north- west-by-north breeze blowing, and put the doctor on board. He examined the man and had him transferred to the life-boat, M'hich landed him at her station at ten o'clock. An ambu- lance was there waiting.—Rewards, £10 4s. 6d. Refunded to the Institu- tion by Trinity House..